2009 CF Games History: WODS ARE BELOW!!

2009 CF Games 

 (All of this information was copied from the CROSSFIT JOURNAL.  

For more details on the events, competitors, and the games go to the CF JOURNAL!)

1 Miko Salo

2 Tommy Hackenbruck

3 Moe Kelsey

1 Tanya Wagner

2 Charity Vale

3 Carey Kepler

2009 Games WODS

Event #1     7k run

Event #2     Deadlift

This event was the first of its kind: athletes were tasked with lifting one heavy deadlift every 30 seconds until they failed. Athletes started at m: 315 lb./w: 185, and if they continued successfully, traveled through 20 bars, each 10 lb. heavier than the last, until the final 505-lb. bar was reached. And, this was about an hour after that brutal 7-kilometer run.

Event #3     Sandbag run

The field was narrowed after the second event, with 10 of the 74 men’s competitors failing to advance. Next up was the sandbag hill sprint, the event that would turn out to be the most painful despite its short duration. The task was simple: sprint roughly 170 meters uphill while men carrying two 35-lb. sandbags, women carrying one 35 lb sandbag.

Event #4     The hopper model tests an athlete’s ability to perform proficiently at random physical challenges. Along those lines, the fourth event required driving a men: four-foot-long blunt stake, women: three-foot-long blunt stake into evenly packed ground with an 8-lb.sledgehammer. To complicate matters, the stake drive was bookended by 500-meter rows.

Event #5     couplet    3 Rounds for time of:
30 Wallballs (m: 20lb, w: 14lb MB to a 10.5' target)
30 Squat snatches (m: 75lbs, w: 45lb movement initiates with barbell below the knees)
20 min time limit.

Event #6     The first event of Day 2 was simple: Find a one-rep-max snatch. The rules of the event were unique. Eight athletes lifted at a time. They had 10 minutes in the arena to establish the heaviest successful lift possible. They could perform as many reps as they wanted within the allotted time. The lift was considered successful as long as no contact was made with the body above the hips (meaning it couldn’t be a clean and jerk). Power snatches, muscle snatches, press-outs and knees contacting the ground were all permitted.

Event #7     triplet    Max rounds and reps in 8 Minutes of:
4 Handstand pushups (on parallettes, no kipping allowed)
8 KB swings (m: 2 pood, w: 1.5 pood)
12 GHD situps

Event #8     chipper (final event)      The chipper format is a classic CrossFit structure. You have a large number of tasks that you complete in order. They are designed so that as you fatigue in one task, you switch up the demands and keep going. There is a cumulative effect of course, but the variety allows for incredible metabolic demand.  The variety also becomes a great equalizer. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, and when the workout has ten elements, both are likely to be featured. The final event of the 2009 Games was exactly that:

15 reps m: 155lb, w: 100lb Barbell squat clean
30 Toes to bar
30 Box jumps m: 24" w: 2o” box
15 Muscle ups/ w: 10 muscle ups
30 PushPress /Push-Jerk  m: 40lb, w: 25lb DBs
30 Double Unders
15 reps m: 135lb, w: 95 lb Thruster
30 Pullups
30 Burpees
300' OH Walking lunge with m: 45lb, w: 25lb plate

Mikko Salo dominated this event. His time of 19:46 was almost two full minutes ahead of second-fastest Jason Khalipa’s 21:35. BrOPT (Michael Fitzgerald) finished an impressive third at 22:13. The workout also had its casualties. Jeremy Thiel tore a lat on his first muscle-up, and three men were unable to finish in the allotted 30min.

Affiliate cup 

On Friday, each team completed three workouts in a random order, similar to the structure of the 2008 Games. Scoring was the same as in the individual competitions (1 point for first, 2 for second, etc., with the team with the lowest number of points to be declared the winner). Only five teams advanced to Sunday’s final. The events on Day 1 were as follows:

The Run: Each member ran a 500-meter lap individually, and the team ran a fifth together. For time.

The Stadium: Each athlete cycled through 30 wall-ball shots, and then the members rotated together through stations of box jumps, dumbbell push presses, kettlebell swings and a 300-meter row. The event ended with each member performing 30 deadlifts, one at a time. For time.

North Pad: Each athlete established their 3-rep-max overhead squat and performed 3 sets of max pull-ups. The team total was the total weight of the overhead squat, plus the total amount of pull-up reps from each member.

chipper final

The team workout was:
75 squat cleans (100/155 lb.)
150 toes to bar
150 box jumps (20/24 inches)
75 thrusters (95/135 lb.)
35 muscle-ups
150 burpees
150 double-unders
300 walking lunges with 35-lb. plate overhead

The required numbers represent total team reps, and there was no minimum requirement per team member. Going into the final stretch of overhead walking lunges, CrossFit Invictus was leading with CrossFit Calgary close behind. The judges were strict, requiring both the knee to hit the ground and the hip to be completely open at the top. Invictus almost lost the lead to missed reps, but Sage Burgener grabbed the plate and drove the team to victory. Their time was 31:16, just three seconds ahead of Calgary’s 31:19.

Below is the article from the 2010 CrossFit Games book that I scanned.  Sorry if it is hard to read!  I have the book at the school.  Check out some of the videos from the games.